Climate Change
Mid-Atlantic States Prepare for More Billion-Dollar Disasters as Trump Considers Cutting Emergency Funding
Experts in the region met in Philadelphia to strategize about how to prepare for severe weather worsened by climate change. Pennsylvania experienced as many major weather disasters in 2024 as it did in all of the 1980s.
PHILADELPHIA—In 2024, Pennsylvania endured a record number of the nation’s billion-dollar weather disasters, from winter storms to drought: 12. Even adjusting for inflation, that’s more than the state faced over the entire decade of the 1980s.